The Start of a long process

This blog has been created to show the process of the advanced portfolio task of which has to be completed for the A2 part of the Media course. This blog will demonstrate the progression and the different stages undertook in the creation of our project. The members of the group that I have been put together with for the advanced production are Alex Mwanza and Callum Augustin. We believe we can strive forward to produce something of which is an outstanding piece of work.

Last year we all knew that we was going to create either a music video or a teaser trailer as part of our portfolio, so my plan was to go away during the summer holidays and think up a few ideas. I was positive I wanted to create a teaser trailer and thought up a few ideas that I could share with the rest of my group.

As a group, we have collectively have chosen to create a teaser trailer. We believe that our skills and personal qualities would be far valuable to us and would be able to put our knowledge of films into one of our own.

In our first lesson, we put pen to paper and thought of which genre of films we watch and enjoyed to watch, as this could potentially rub off onto our production. However we then thought of genre’s that would we would realistically able to create and would be a high-quality and professional teaser trailer.

Here are some of the following genres we came up with:

• Action Adventure
• Horror/Thriller
• Comedy

After more brainstorming and in depth discussion, the three of us came to a decision to create a Post-Apocalyptic Horror/Thriller, of which was one of my ideas and funny enough one of Callum’s. This was a very positive sign as we could put two and two together and have a greatly promising concept to work with in the next few weeks.  We then moved onto the computers to watch professional high budgeted movie trailers, such as I am Legend. It then came to our attention that we won’t be able to create something as big as I am Legend and Zombieland, but we can still incorporate some of the ideas into our trailer. We then began to look at low-budgeted film trailers of which were created by British film companies such as the 28 days later trilogy, Deadman’s Shoes and Trainspotting.  

By the end of the lesson, we then had a good idea of the concept of what to incorporate into the trailer, how to establish characters and settings, and the main structure of a trailer. This enabled us to plan a concept for our trailer and jot down a few ideas that would interest an audience (of which we will decide on later in the process).